There is no doubt that the nuclear deal reached between Iran and the P5+1 six world powers in Vienna on July 14, 2015 will impact the domestic, regional and international atmosphere. And some of these will come sooner than others.

An element that differentiated the nuclear talks between the six major world powers and Iran in Vienna in late June was that relatives of Iranian-Americans who are held in Iranian prisons staged a demonstration in front of the building where the talks are held in Austria to highlight their calls.

The positioning of ISIL's army with some thousands of armored vehicles, personnel carriers, and hundreds of armed fighters in northern Syria, is a curious and suspicious development in the Middle East that has not raised any alarms in the US or Israel!

One of the key practices of Iran’s intelligence agencies is to box public opinion with the purpose of controlling the behavior of people during unforeseen events that could erupt in the future. Civil society has been alert to this in recent years and has acted wisely.

Dual Containment is the name of the strategy pursued by the Reagan administration in the 1980s to ensure that both Iran and Iraq remained under control and that neither came out the dominant power in the 8-year Iran-Iraq war to control the region.

At a time when the president has failed, or has not wanted, to lift the securitized atmosphere in the country and has not succeeded in stopping the military-men from interfering in the political and cultural affairs, his first deputy, Eshagh Jahangiri, last week complained that none of the administration’s supporters have provided any help to it.

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As President Hassan Rouhani enters his second year in office and with the nuclear issue not overwhelmingly dominating the top agenda of the state, public attention shifts to other national issues and expectations from the president and his team take varied elevated priorities.

The website of Iran’s top leader ayatollah Khamenei has posted a note that presents the position of the supreme leader on the July 14 nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 six world powers and says that from the ayatollah’s perspective the text of the deal is not treasonous but is not approved either.

With the nuclear issue now in second gear, Iranian society is debating what next. Some political groups inside Iran are now calling for “expansion” of the “talks policy” of Hassan Rouhani’s administration to launch domestic talks among various political groups.

In their celebration of the Vienna nuclear agreement reached between Iran and the six major powers reached on Tuesday, one of the chants some people in the streets of Tehran shouted was, “The next agreement is for civil rights.”

A former top commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Mohsen Rezai, warned in a televised program that not only did the US not have the capability to militarily confront Iran but went beyond that and said that...